US466345A

US466345A - Sprinkler

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Publication number: US466345A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1892-01-05
Anticipated expiration: 1909-01-05

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(No Model.) y Y v J'. B. HABERLB.

SPRINKLBR. No. 466,345. Paten-ted Jan.5, 1892*.

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I, UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

'.IoIIN E. I-IABEELE, on soUTII BEND, INDIANA.

SP'RINKLER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 466,345, dated January 5, 1892.

' Application iiled September-1d, 1891. Serial No. 405,913. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.'

Be it known that I, JOHN B. HABEELE, of South Bend, in St. Joseph county, and State of Indiana, have invented new and useful Improvements in Sprinkler-Heads for Perambulating Sprinkling-Carts; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full andaccurate description of the same,` reference being had to the accompanying drawings,- in which- Figure lis a front elevation of my-sprinklerhead. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the same. Fig. 3 is a Vertical transverse section of the same. Fig. 4 isA a vertical longitudinal section of the same. Fig. 5 is' a front elevation showing adjustment for throwing around stream. Fig. 6 is a perspective view of myV cart, one head being represented as throwing a yflat stream and the other head throwing two round streams.

My invention has particular reference to those small and inexpensive two wheeled sprinkling-carts which are almost exclusively employed by farmers to'sprinkle their growing crops with water for irrigation or with a poisonous liquid for the destruction of insect pests.; andv it has -been a particular object to attain efficiency with simplicity and cheapness of structure.

The tank is frequently a large barrel mounted upon a cart-axle supported by two wheels. In the bottom of the tank avalve is placed whereby the driver may control the discharge of the liquid contents. To the discharge-pipe below said valve one or two short sections of hose or pipe'A are attached, and at their extremities the sprinkling-heads are placed, which form the subject of this patent. The sprinkling-head B is a cast-iron (or other Inetal) tube, most conveniently made with a short bend at one'end, and a transverse slit b, through which the water will escape in a iiat jet. A tubular cap C is fitted to close and project into the open end of the head B. The tubular portion otv said cap is sufficiently long to project across and close the` slit b 45 when pushed entirely in and on one side. Said tubular part is beveled lto correspond with the plane of the slit b, so that it may be employed to vary the width of said slit, and thereby vary the thickness and volume of 5o the issuing jet. A screw D serves to set and hold the cap C at the desired point.

When poisoned water is employed, it is generally desired to direct the jet upon the plants only and not atall upon the ground. I there- 5 5 fore make a jet-holee in one sideof the tubular part of the cap, most conveniently upon 'the side opposite the beveled portion f,.s0

that by rotating the cap C one halt-revolution or thereabout the jet-slit b may be closed 6o and the jet-hole e will be presented opposite said slit and the poisoned water thereby projected in a single stream directly upon the plants to be treated.

It is evident the hole e may be otherwise'65 placed with reference to the beveled edge fthat is to say, forinstance, it might be placed above the part f, instead ot' opposite thereto without changing the invention.

Having described my invention, I- claim- 7o l.v The sprinkling-head B, provided with the jet-slit b, and the tubular cap C, adjustable in the open end of said head and provided with the j et-hole e, as and for the purpose set forth.

2. The sprinkler-head B, provided with the 7 5 jet-slit b,and the tubular cap C, provided with the beveled portion f and with the jet-hole e, whereby by a change of position of said cap the issuing jet may be a iiat or round stream,

as preferred.

JOHN B. HABERLE. Witnesses:

IRA S. ARMSTRONG, HOWARD J. STACK.